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situation. When I’ve shown the work since it sits more in the making, object
orientated.
38. How would you define the relationship between your work and
its audience?
Personal I think it comes back to the stuff that goes on the body or being
interested in the body is a location as an entity it’s never going to mean the same
to two people because it’s personal. It’s all been a personal starting point about
my own habits and it’s gone off into more general direction. It goes back to
being forced to do fashion at college, which I hated at the time but its gone back
to fashion theory and how we express and dress ourselves. It’s very personal
and will probably mean nothing to some but others will pick something up.
39. Do you think there is a trend towards an emerging, hybrid
discipline?
Yes I think so. I think that at the moment there are hybrid things happening
within pre-existing disciplines. I think that you see it everywhere particularly in
textiles and I think that it is starting to branch out like the Interactive Products
course in Dundee in academia. There’s all that terrible academic politics
stopping it happening on a more natural level in a lot of places. At the minute
I’m doing some work with a ceramic student. The reason I am able to do that
with him is because one of our researchers gets on really well with the ceramics
faculty and there’s no tension. I haven’t been able to do work with other areas
of the college, which I should have, because of people fighting over money from
different faculties.
In the real world it’s obviously harder and still I don’t see, with the varied
experience which I have when I finish my contract and go looking for something
in the real world - no one’s going to take a chance on me because I’m not a
specialist. There are not a lot of opportunities for someone who comes from a
really hybrid background. At the moment it’s probably putting people off
because the only place for it is within academic research.
40. If so, what role if any does technology play in this?
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